Tag: ISS
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Weekly Space Blog 9/28
This week in space… Soyuz Launched to ISS This week saw another Soyuz launch to the space station on board the Soyuz TMA-10M were Russian Cosmonaut’s Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as NASA Astronaut Michael Hopkins. Following a flawless countdown the three launched at 4:58:50 pm EDT, eight minutes later they were in…
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Weekly Space Blog 8/24
WISE approved for asteroid survey NASA announced this week that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will be taken out of hibernation to start a three year mission to search for Near Earth Objects. While the primary instruments on the vehicle required frozen hydrogen to operate which ran out in 2011 the other instruments…
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Weekly Space Blog 8/17
We are back after a two week break to enjoy the New England summer, this week we have lots of great news. Russian Cosmonauts set new Space Walk Record The week two Russian Cosmonauts broke the space walk endurance record by complete a 7h 29m excursion outside the International Space Station. Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander…
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Weekly Space Blog 7/13
Another week has come and gone and the stories continue to flow in, this week we have a number of exciting stories plus four Kickstarter projects related to space. Bold New Plan for first SLS/Orion Launch This week NASA managers announced the new plan which would see the first uncrewed mission named EM-1 travel to…
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Weekly Space Blog 7/6
Another busy week in space Cassini captures picture of Saturn Moon Janus This week Cassini returned a picture of one of Saturn’s small lumpy moon’s named Janus, the moon doesn’t have sufficient gravity to pull itself into a round shape as seen with most other moons. For more pictures of the moon check out the…
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Soyuz launch, ARKYD Kickstarter, Astronaut Abby
Welcome to my new weekly blog on all things Space, this week we take a look at the latest Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, the ARKYD Kickstarter project and Astronaut Abby a 15 year old with an amazing vision for STEM and Space. Soyuz Launch On Tuesday this week Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca…
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Liftoff of Falcon 9 with Dragon
This morning SpaceX successfully launched their latest Falcon 9 witth Dragon towards the international space station. Following an aborted launch on Saturday that was traced back to a faulty value on engine 5 SpaceX successfully fixed, validated and prepared for launch this morning. After the 9 minute ride to orbit which was performed flawlessly by…
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3 Weeks and Counting to SpaceX Launch
In just over three weeks SpaceX is scheduled to launch their second and hopefully last COTS demo mission. Today we are going to take a look in detail at the Dragon spacecraft and what a successful mission will mean for SpaceX and the US space industry in general. Dragon Designed and built by SpaceX the…
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And then there were six
This morning Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers and Don Pettit successfully launched from Kazakhstan aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft heading to the space station to complete the full Expedition 30 crew and once again return the station to a six man crew. Despite the bitter cold weather, the crew launched on time and will now spend two days…
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Falling Behind
China are on the verge of surpassing the US for second place in the number of spacecraft launched in a single year. Last year we were tied for second place and so far this year have one more mission than China but with no more planned US launches this year and at least one more…